Author: A.M. Hocart

Cited by

• Julia Greenway (1)
  • IN: The Bird Skinner (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Set out, you people of Gele, you people of Lavalava, you people of Vonjavonja, you people of Elosana. Go up to Aku, launch four canoes; go down to Yombavuru, launch four canoes; gpo down to None, launch four eel boards, launch four embracing nights; cast out four hawsers. Shout people of Gele, should people of Lavalava, shout people of Vonjavonja, shout people of Elosagana; let him come down sounding the conch, come down casting, come down casting. Go ogg to Mala Kinda, scoop the water four times; go off to Mbulolo, scoop the water four times; go off to Patu Lavata, cast four hawswers. Go off to the deep sea, backstroke; go off to Lolo te Pome, backstroke. Go off to the Stone that sits, and wait, that they may take you to go to Santo.
    FROM: Dead in the Eddystone of the Solomons, Solomon Island Prayer for the Dead, (1922), Religious Text, UK